Topic: Managed Services - Page 123

Listen in as Erick and Rich ponder Lenovo’s Microsoft 365 managed service, holding sales meetings online, and a new service that lets you uncork the giant scream of coronavirus frustration you’ve been bottling up in an Icelandic canyon.

Nothing ill-gotten here, folks. Just interesting talk by Matt, Rich, and guest host Erick Simpson about Microsoft’s Inspire partner conference, Lenovo’s Microsoft 365 managed services, BitTitan’s “IT toolbox” solution for technicians, and SolarWinds MSP’s RMM integration with Microsoft Intune.

When it rolls out later this year, the new collaboration with Microsoft will let users of SolarWinds N-central and SolarWinds RMM monitor the devices they administer in Intune through the same interface they use to manage other customer endpoints.

The business availability vendor’s new partner program is designed to bring clarity to once loosely defined requirements and benefits.

An expanded edition of the vendor’s Voleer application draws on a library of pre-engineered templates to automate management tasks associated with cloud solutions like Microsoft 365 and its Microsoft Teams component.

Sold through partners but delivered by Lenovo technicians, the new offerings are designed to help end users implement, manage, and secure Microsoft cloud software while helping VARs and solution providers enter the managed services market.

Edge computing solutions are highly powerful and highly vulnerable. Here’s how to protect them.

Erick and Rich discuss HP’s ambitious new partner program, how to handle employees uncomfortable with your pandemic-era policies on site visits, and a pub in the U.K. that’s found a shockingly effective way to enforce distancing rules.

Is there a cash bath in Datto’s near future?

Collectively, a series of new and enhanced offerings introduced today seek to help channel pros keep remote workers and employees returning to reopened offices both safe and productive, while generating incremental services-led revenue for themselves.